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offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-24 08:02 [#00282557]
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deny that any pleasure or entertainment extracted from any
pointless stupid art is from the brain's clumsy fumbling
around and fucking up trying to comprehend it. We all have
brains, and that's the only reason stuff is interesting. So
it follows that the MOST entertaining thing would be
something that forces the brain to fumble around all
confused trying to figure out what the hell is going on the
most.
Consider patterns in music. The FASTER these patterns go in
time, the quicker the brain has to fire to keep up with
understanding it. (also if they change the changes have to
be understood). In addition to speed, MULTIPLE patterns at
once forces the brain to comprehend 2 things simultaneously,
therefore maximizing entertainment.
Make some crappy beat like this:
o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---
Ever notice that on this pattern, strikes of sound that go
by simultaneously based on groups of three sound the most
interesting?
0--0--0 right on the top, this is because the brain is
comprehending 2 patterns, the one based on 4 and the one
based on three. I'll shut up now because this is pointlessly
uninteresting and I hate writing.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-24 08:07 [#00282561]
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Like I just played mario's "the lost levels" and there is a
level 5-4, a main castle, where you can just run like hell
and make it if your brain tells your hands to push the
buttons (have the correct reactions/reflexes) at the right
times. When you have to run fast in this case, the screen
flies by and you have to think and mentally respond QUICKLY
(this is like tempo in music) Now they could include a
simultaneous pattern/goal to make the brain think of
something else simultaneously... like maybe you have to
juggle a little screen of missle command in a lower window
and the mario level at the same time! That'd be wickedly
hard, I'd never leave the indoors (I don't anyway). That'd
be clumsy of course, I'm sure there's better ways of doing
stuff like this if it's thought out, but since I can't
program videogames, it's pointless to even think about it.


 

offline SwitchFrontside on 2002-06-24 08:16 [#00282573]
Points: 818 Status: Regular



i had a game like that, i cant remember the name or pretty
much anything about it but i do remember it made my brain
think mass amounts per second, and my reflexes were tested
way beyond there limit, quite fun, just like going down a
hill as fast as you can on a skateboard right at oncuming
traffic, cause you have to pick your path within a split
second or you are going to get creamed.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-24 08:24 [#00282578]
Points: 21454 Status: Regular



Hmm a comparison to an... actual thing to do in... real life
is interesting. Perhaps there are a few things that are fun
in that world of mass and physical things, ... probably not
though, no sense trying it. I wish you remembered the name,
well doom2 was quite thinky, especially the master levels.
That's fun shit, better than walking around outside or being
with human beings. That's why we like to be entertained too,
it's all based on our evolution dealing with other
interactive replicas of ourselves. That's why computers are
so interactive and fun, I'm not even talking to anyone right
now so to speak, just sitting by myself, but the computer
magically responds as if a real person is there. I'll shut
up now. But I'll probably be inspired to write something
else that is stupid soon just to keep myself entertained,
which is the whole point of everything. stupid idiots,
everyone.


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2002-06-24 09:13 [#00282634]
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heh there are thousands of games like that.
yes an imaginative type of music can entertain, but a
repetative can make you move.
Now lyrics can do both....


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-24 09:20 [#00282646]
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The only reason repetition can make you move better than
irregular bizarre shit is because our bodies are too
stupidly designed in their ability to cooperate with the
brains instructions given to the limbs. I'm telling you
these bodies are totally messed up, what was god thinking?
It's all wrong, who but an insane lunatic would create any
bipedal creature anyway, what a ludicrous design. You're all
bothering me, quit talking as if you know what you're
talking about (heh heh, it's fun to talk like that guy
maddox)


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-24 09:46 [#00282685]
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psh, I designed you chat bots for the sole purpose of
entertaining me! now how to it!! You have no respect for me
even though I created you, miserable disrespectful chat
bots.


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2002-06-24 09:47 [#00282686]
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u dissed God!

we are perfectly designed!


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-24 09:50 [#00282688]
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I guess it could be entertaining to pretend to disagree with
you. I'm going to go to sleep instead actually, sleep is so
pointless but it's certainly better than being awake.


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-06-24 11:05 [#00282776]
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no one disses God ... no one...


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-25 06:41 [#00284059]
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Can he diss himself? What right do you, a mere mortal, have
to say who can and cannot diss god? If I was god and I
created a bunch of helplessly retarded creatures like human
beings I'd expect them to diss me for what I did to them.


 

offline SwitchFrontside on 2002-06-25 07:08 [#00284077]
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no-one can diss god cause god desn't exist..... simple......
like ikea furniture


 

offline SwitchFrontside on 2002-06-25 07:11 [#00284081]
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doesn't*


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-06-25 20:17 [#00284787]
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interesting stuff w M w
ive thought of this stuff before too... i wonder if theres a
field of psychology about it


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2002-06-25 22:02 [#00284879]
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If there's not I vote that w M w should create it!


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-26 06:57 [#00285332]
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It seems a lot of artists are secretive about their
techniques/methods/programs/etc. in making their own unique
insanely constructed brilliant material. They could take a
different approach, like Newton made experiments with
elevated platforms to measure gravity's effects. He wrote
down the results and SHARED them with other people so ANYONE
could repeat the experiment and get the same results. Not
that I know anything worth communicating to others, but in
the off chance that I should join the masses of artists
(idiots) and get my music published and shared in mass for a
price that's like hundreds of times the value of the cd's
plastic... then I'd probably just tell the damn truth,
exactly how everything was made, the techniques and ideas
and concepts, so others could duplicate it and extract
ideas, take ideas further etc. Or something, nevermind.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-06-26 07:02 [#00285342]
Points: 14550 Status: Lurker



ain't got no jooooob but i stay shiiiiiine, can't pay no
reeeent cos all my money's speeeeeent, but that's okaaay cos
i'm still flyyyyyy


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-26 07:05 [#00285348]
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you came you went, my mind it got a dent, i couldn't pay my
rent, cuz all my cash was lent, this town is filled with
thousand dollar bills, laminated songs, contaminated lungs,
well we eat about fifeeeeeeeeeeen times a daaaaaaaaaay,
starin throoooough a baaaaaag o-o-of fritoooo laaaaaaay, and
i play with the fire on the stove, when my eyes peel out and
my fingertips get cold

well it's real and it's fake, and it's f-f-flamin like... a
steak, and she's puttin out my face with the rake.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-26 08:57 [#00285418]
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Like, what if autechre wrote down all their secrets and
techniques and their insight about why they do what they do
etc. etc. I bet they could enlighten with words to a similar
degree that their music has enlightened. What the hell
perspective are they coming from? We have to guess.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-02 11:42 [#00846434]
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Then again, if otto von schirach shared his written musical
insight, we'd all become more stupid or go insane.


 


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